SQL Server Jobs in Kent

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 66 19
Rank change year-on-year +46 -47 -14
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 131 35 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 8.88% 3.01% 11.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 43.67% 24.31% 46.03%
Number of salaries quoted 130 33 94
10th Percentile £37,375 £37,800 £26,975
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,000 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +21.21% -2.94%
75th Percentile £65,250 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £60,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Kent

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 300 144 315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 20.34% 12.39% 24.67%
Number of salaries quoted 229 93 190
10th Percentile £32,250 £26,050 £26,475
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £32,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% +2.41%
75th Percentile £65,250 £61,250 £54,750
90th Percentile £71,500 £67,250 £70,200
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Kent

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Kent.

Salary trend for SQL Server in Kent

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Kent over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Kent

SQL Server
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Kent region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Canterbury - 21 £65,000 - 1
Tunbridge Wells - 20 £47,500 - 1
Dartford - 11 £40,000 - 1
Maidstone +19 9 £65,000 +20.93% 8
Chatham +13 7 £63,500 +27.00%
Broadstairs - 7 £47,500 - 1
Sevenoaks 0 5 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Folkestone - 5 £55,000 -
West Malling - 5 £65,000 - 1
Sittingbourne - 2 £60,000 -
Swanley - 1 £52,500 - 1
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.05%) Apache
1 4 (3.05%) ColdFusion
1 4 (3.05%) IIS
1 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.53%) Drupal
2 2 (1.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.05%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 99 (75.57%) Azure
2 41 (31.30%) AWS
3 11 (8.40%) PaaS
4 10 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (7.63%) IaaS
4 10 (7.63%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.63%) Serverless
5 8 (6.11%) GCP
6 7 (5.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (5.34%) Azure Functions
7 6 (4.58%) SaaS
8 4 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.29%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (2.29%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.63%) Internet
2 7 (5.34%) HTTP
3 3 (2.29%) Broadband
4 2 (1.53%) Firewall
4 2 (1.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.98%) Elasticsearch
1 17 (12.98%) MongoDB
1 17 (12.98%) Relational Database
2 15 (11.45%) MySQL
2 15 (11.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (9.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (9.92%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (8.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (7.63%) Power BI
6 7 (5.34%) DynamoDB
6 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
7 6 (4.58%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.05%) DB2
9 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Git
2 2 (1.53%) JIRA
2 2 (1.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (20.61%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.79%) Finance
3 12 (9.16%) Retail
4 8 (6.11%) Games
5 6 (4.58%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.29%) Advertising
6 3 (2.29%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.29%) Marketing
7 2 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.53%) French Language
7 2 (1.53%) German Language
7 2 (1.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 99 (75.57%) Developer
2 73 (55.73%) .NET Developer
3 25 (19.08%) C# Developer
4 23 (17.56%) C# .NET Developer
5 16 (12.21%) Azure Developer
6 13 (9.92%) DBA
6 13 (9.92%) Senior
7 8 (6.11%) Lead
8 7 (5.34%) AWS Developer
8 7 (5.34%) Backend Developer
8 7 (5.34%) JavaScript Developer
8 7 (5.34%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.58%) SQL DBA
10 5 (3.82%) Agile .NET Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Agile C# Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Agile Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Internet Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Junior
10 5 (3.82%) Junior Developer
10 5 (3.82%) Social Media Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (65.65%) .NET
2 68 (51.91%) ASP.NET
3 63 (48.09%) AngularJS
4 60 (45.80%) ASP.NET Web API
5 41 (31.30%) React
6 39 (29.77%) .NET Core
6 39 (29.77%) ASP.NET MVC
7 38 (29.01%) Vue
8 33 (25.19%) HTML
9 32 (24.43%) Entity Framework
10 31 (23.66%) HTML5
11 25 (19.08%) .NET Framework
11 25 (19.08%) RESTful
12 20 (15.27%) LINQ
13 18 (13.74%) CSS
14 17 (12.98%) Node.js
15 12 (9.16%) CSS3
16 11 (8.40%) jQuery
16 11 (8.40%) Web Services
17 7 (5.34%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.27%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (8.40%) Algorithms
3 10 (7.63%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.63%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.82%) BBC
6 5 (3.82%) Social Media
7 4 (3.05%) PMI
8 2 (1.53%) Clustering
8 2 (1.53%) Replication
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.63%) Windows
2 4 (3.05%) Linux
3 3 (2.29%) VMS
4 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (52.67%) Agile
2 65 (49.62%) Microservices
3 64 (48.85%) Full Stack Development
4 44 (33.59%) MVC
5 26 (19.85%) TDD
6 24 (18.32%) BDD
7 17 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (12.98%) Kanban
7 17 (12.98%) Scrum
8 15 (11.45%) Data Protection
8 15 (11.45%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
8 15 (11.45%) Multithreading
8 15 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (10.69%) CI/CD
9 14 (10.69%) Migration
10 13 (9.92%) DevOps
10 13 (9.92%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (9.92%) ETL
11 12 (9.16%) Computer Science
12 11 (8.40%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 87 (66.41%) C#
2 65 (49.62%) JavaScript
3 49 (37.40%) SQL
4 37 (28.24%) TypeScript
5 11 (8.40%) Java
6 10 (7.63%) T-SQL
7 6 (4.58%) PHP
8 5 (3.82%) Python
9 4 (3.05%) C++
9 4 (3.05%) CFML
9 4 (3.05%) RPG
10 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (13.74%) Degree
2 12 (9.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.63%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.05%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.63%) GDPR
1 10 (7.63%) HIPAA
2 5 (3.82%) QA
3 4 (3.05%) COBIT
4 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (2.29%) Docker
1 3 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 63 (48.09%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.98%) Google
3 8 (6.11%) Facebook
4 5 (3.82%) Apple
4 5 (3.82%) Oracle
4 5 (3.82%) Sony
4 5 (3.82%) Yahoo!
5 4 (3.05%) Adobe
6 2 (1.53%) Veeam
6 2 (1.53%) VMware
7 1 (0.76%) Databricks